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Web Ready 2013 awards music broadcasting, contextual ad and customer service solutions

December 3, 2013

Last week, the finale of the 5th annual Web Ready contest was held in Skolkovo, based on an initial  selection of 715 applications from 100 cities in 21 countries. BUBUKA, a service to control music broadcasting from Tomsk, received the first prize. Second place went to Alytics, a startup from Zelenograd developing contextual ad solutions …

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Igor Ryabenkiy’s Altair injects additional funds in contextual ad solution provider Alytics

November 18, 2013

Altair, the venture fund of serial business angel Igor Ryabenkiy, has invested an undisclosed amount in Alytics, a startup developing contextual ad solutions to optimize conversion rates. The investment comes a mere eight months after Ryabenkiy co-invested with the Moscow Seed Fund in the startup at the seed stage. The initial funding has been used …

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Online consumer goods testing platform raises $1 million from Moscow business angels

October 31, 2013

Product Test, a project aimed at testing and giving expert evaluations of consumer products, has announced that it received approximately $1 million from Moscow serial angel investor Igor Ryabenkiy and four other business angels. Conceived as a platform to test consumer goods including electronics and household goods, Product Test buys the products it assesses rather …

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JavaScript error tracker Qbaka raises $200,000 in seed-stage funding from Maxfield Capital and angel investor Igor Ryabenkiy

October 8, 2013

Last week Maxfield Capital, a Moscow-based $100 million venture fund, and Altair, the investment vehicle of serial business angel Igor Ryabenkiy, announced a seed-stage investment in Qbaka, an award-winning startup developing a solution to track JavaScript errors on web services. The round amounted to $200,000, but may be completed with other investors, Qbaka’s co-founder Andrey …

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Geolocated job search app launches in Moscow with $300,000 angel support

September 19, 2013

Qwenty, a Moscow based startup developing a mobile app for geolocated job searches, has raised $300,000 from serial startup investor Igor Ryabenkiy via his fund Altair. The fund now holds a 35% stake in the startup, the news agency RIA Novosti reported. The iOS and Android app, which is scheduled for launch in Moscow later …

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Moscow startup Goodwin turns magazines, TV screens, and subway advertisements into supports for mobile commerce

September 9, 2013

While Russian retailers are experimenting increasingly with multichannel approaches, Goodwin, a Moscow-based startup that has just secured seed investment, is introducing a pioneering mobile commerce project. Inspired by the Amazon Flow concept, Goodwin lets smartphone owners buy products from “virtual storefronts” – which can be almost anything from an article in a magazine, to a …

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Moscow City launches investor-friendly startup incubator

September 5, 2013

In late August, the Moscow Innovation Development Center (IDC), an agency established last year by the Moscow government to foster high tech sectors in the capital, launched its first incubator, christened “API Moscow.” Located in Digital October, a major tech event venue in Moscow’s center, the incubator already hosts no fewer than 30 startups, providing them with infrastructure …

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From visual file exploration to genetic data interpretation, Moscow University incubator displays startup innovation

July 12, 2013

At the end of June, Moscow State University’s (MSU) business incubator presented a new batch of startups at the second annual MSU Demo Day, which attracted more than 50 investors. In addition to startups created by eight MSU alumni, six more startups from other incubators – those from ITMO in St. Petersburg and the Moscow …

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Moscow Seed Fund invests $240,000 in traffic monitoring service

July 4, 2013

The Moscow Seed Fund, the City of Moscow’s venture arm, has poured 8 million rubles (about $240,000) into a startup named Probki Iz Okna (Russian for “traffic jams from the window”). The company has created a large network of webcams installed and controlled by users to monitor the road traffic situation in real time in the …

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Package tour reseller Travelata.ru secures $5 million investment from Poland’s MCI

June 28, 2013

Moscow-based startup Travelata.ru has just raised $5 million in a Series A round from Polish private equity fund MCI Management. The capital injection went through Invia.cz, one of MCI’s portfolio companies, which sells package tours online in the Czech Republic and four other Eastern and Central European countries. The funding will be used to further …

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Yandex offers €150,000 grant to Germany-based Wikidata to fine-tune its algorithm with “huge body of data”

June 17, 2013

Earlier this month, Russian search giant Yandex announced that it has provided a €150,000 grant to Wikidata, a non-profit organization that is developing a knowledge database with structured information obtained from Wikipedia articles. Launched in October 2012 by Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikidata is creating a huge database about different objects, people, things, and phenomena, and how …

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Online ad management startup CPAExchange secures seed funding on a highly competitive market

May 31, 2013

Prostor Capital announced yesterday that it has purchased a 25% stake in online ad management startup CPAExchange in a seed funding round. Neither the exact amount of the investment nor the company’s valuation have been disclosed. Founded in 2012, CPAExchange is a service that allows customers to place and manage advertisements online using the click-per-action …

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